"I don't know how much Alan Titchmarsh knows about wildlife, but he certainly sees it from a funny angle. In the first episode of his big-budget television series, British Isles – A Natural History, his feet hardly seemed to touch the ground. One moment he was up there in a jet, zooming through the clouds at the speed of sound, and at the next he was dangling from a rope, wearing crampons, before leaping into his rubber dinghy and tearing off down the rapids."